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THE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER
Topic Started: Oct 17 2009, 12:31 PM (676 Views)
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Most people are aware that the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created come from the novel Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, wife of the acclaimed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. What many people do not know is that Victor Frankenstein was based on the real-life Johann Konrad Dippel (1673-1734), a kind of 18th century mad scientist who was born in 1673 in Germany at - believe it or not - Castle Frankenstein.

Educated as a physician, Dippel set up a laboratory at Castle Frankenstein near Darmstadt, Germany where he would be free to conduct his bizarre experiments. There's no record of whether or not he had a hunchbacked assistant named Igor, but Dippel (who often went by the name Konrad Frankensteina) spent a lot of his time with his hobby of alchemy - a popular pursuit of the day. Alchemy is a kind pseudoscientific experimentation with the elements - crazy chemistry - whose ultimate challenge was to be able to turn lead into gold. Like Victor Frankenstein, Dippel was also fascinated by the possibility of immortality through scientific means. He really did use the parts of butchered animals and exhumed human corpses in his vain attempt to "engender life in the dead," in his own words.

Unlike his literary and cinematic "decedents," Dippel did not rig up the body parts to elaborate lightning-powered gizmos and spark generators. Rather he boiled everything - skin, muscle, bone, blood, hair and organs - in large vats. When the surrounding community got wind of what Dippel was up to, maybe they didn't storm his castle with torches, shovels and rakes, but they did kick him out of town.

Shelly undoubtedly based her novel on Dippel's antics, since it is documented that she visited Castle Frankenstein in 1814 when she eloped with Percy. The ruins of Castle Frankenstein can still be seen today.

The Frankenstein monster is one of the most enduring images of Halloween, our most popular images of which come from James Whale's 1931 film and Boris Karloff's unforgettable portrayal. The story has been sequelled and retold in numerous movies, including some memorable Hammer films starring Peter Cushing and, of course, Mel Brooks' hilarious spoof, Young Frankenstein.

Are there any real-life man-made monsters? Not yet. But with our growing knowledge of the human genome, the means to manipulate DNA and our newly acquired ability to clone living creatures... who knows? Just recently it was announced that a company in Melbourne, Australia had succeeded in creating an embryo that is half human, half pig. Why they wanted to do such a thing was not revealed in the news story, but if such creations are now possible, who knows what real-life horrors await us in the near future.

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Quote from article: " Just recently it was announced that a company in Melbourne, Australia had succeeded in creating an embryo that is half human, half pig. , but if sWhy they wanted to do such a thing was not revealed in the news storyuch creations are now possible, who knows what real-life horrors await us in the near future."

Ah the value of nursery songs to knowledge

Why did the bear go over the mountain? To see what he could see.
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I like what you write so much, I'll go along with anything you even suspect might be true, well, maybe not EVERYTHING.
"While hiding out in Cairo,... I'm a desperate man...Send lawyers, guns, and money,... the shit has hit the fan".(Paraphrase from "LAWYERS, GUNS AND MONEY")

"...We die at such a place;
some swearing; some dying, some crying for a surgeon;
....some upon their wives left poor behind them;
...some upon the debts they owed;
some upon their children rawly left.

I am afeared there are few die well that die in battle..."
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Thanks, Hound. I have done deep research on many things but . . . I am simply colating what I have read, and assessing the whole of the physical "evidence" that I have found. Errors could have been made in translations by others, and most certainly were made. I ascribe to no paradigm of science, and can see no reason that the ancient authors would write fantasies to confuse others way far into the future. They might not have interpreted correctly the causes of physical happenings they personally witnessed, but i think that they "called 'em as they saw 'em".

I remain a student, not an authoritative expert.
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Auh !the Smells of a Pig-Man snootin through the night Looking for his grubs!
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Or snout n the Dank earth for prized Truffles of the old Growth Forest "eat"
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Naw.. :speechless: I feel in a wishey-washey mood this morning, it is 1:10 A.M. in the ssates and I am clueless. :lmao: :lmao:
"While hiding out in Cairo,... I'm a desperate man...Send lawyers, guns, and money,... the shit has hit the fan".(Paraphrase from "LAWYERS, GUNS AND MONEY")

"...We die at such a place;
some swearing; some dying, some crying for a surgeon;
....some upon their wives left poor behind them;
...some upon the debts they owed;
some upon their children rawly left.

I am afeared there are few die well that die in battle..."
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